Three Uses of the Knife
On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
$24.77
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2000
Summary
The purpose of theater, like magic, like religion … is to inspire cleansing awe. What makes good drama? And why does drama matter in an age that is awash in information and entertainment?
David Mamet, one of our greatest living playwrights, tackles these questions with bracing directness and aphoristic authority. He believes that the tendency to dramatize is essential to human nature, that we create drama out of everything from today’s weather to next year’s elections. But the highest…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375704239 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 037570423X |
| Author: | David Mamet |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2000 |
| Weight: | 85g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 132mm x 6mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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Critics Review
”[Mamet] brings his usual passion and provocation to his treatise on what makes good drama.” –Vanity Fair
“No modern playwright has been bolder or more brilliant.” –The New Yorker
“Pinter, Albee, Miller. They’re all looking over Mamet’s shoulder.” –New York
“David Mamet adds yet another segment to a body of work that puts him among the great writers of this, or any other, time.” –Joe Mantegna
About The Author
David Mamet
David Mamet is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, as well as a director, novelist, poet, and essayist. He has written the screenplays for more than twenty films, including Heist, Spartan, House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, The Winslow Boy, Wag the Dog, and the Oscar-nominated The Verdict. His more than twenty plays include Oleanna, The Cryptogram, Speed-the-Plow, American Buffalo, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Glengarry Glen Ross. Born in Chicago in 1947, Mamet has taught at the Yale School of Drama, New York University, and Goddard College, and is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company.
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